Example sentences for: evocative

How can you use “evocative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Careful, Jodi-reading your evocative description of the Maxwell Street Market, I could sense your inner travel writer clamoring to run free.

  • A glance through the largest occupational group in my local Yellow Pages turns up farmers with suitably evocative names like Bale, Bull, Sheaves , and Steer , but others called Blight and Greed .

  • To start with, their writing is often rhetorical or even evocative.

  • An amusing example of this kind of semantic confusion will be found in Chapter XX of Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow . From boyhood the romantic, poetically inclined hero, Denis Stone, found the word carminative particularly evocative.

  • The first, the Museo Nacional de Arte Hispano-Musulmán (Museum of Hispano-Moorish Art), displays such evocative artifacts as the throne of the Nasrids, a wooden armchair inlaid with silver and ivory, and the Alhambra Vase, which once graced the Hall of the Two Sisters.


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